Do you ever feel bad being selfish? Taking time for you? Working to improve yourself instead of helping others?
First off it is extremely important to support your family, help others, and to help build your community. However, if you don’t focus on supporting and improving yourself then your ability to help others will likely decrease.
As an example, take parents. If they put all their energy into their kids, at the cost of themselves, then they will become worthless to them!
Take time for yourself. Rest. Relax. Exercise. Improve your ability to do something. Learn something new.
You will become a much better person for those you interact with and desire to help. I felt really bad for all the suffering my family had to go through as I got my master’s degree. In the end though I became a better person to have around, can support them better financially, and can now spend more time with them. For them the sacrifice has brought greater opportunities than I have received.
So take time today to make yourself a better person and start being able to really help those around you!
What do you do to improve yourself as an individual for the benefit of others around you?
